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Javascript accessing content of Textarea

Last post 10-18-2005, 1:30 PM by Adam. 8 replies.


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08-09-2005, 8:50 PM 9434

shriner
Joined on 07-29-2005
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Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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Greetings,

I am supposed to write an Auto-save feature to be used with the CuteEditor, I want to use JS to capture the contents of the editor and then use XMLHttp to save the value of the editor.

Problem: how do you pull an HTML based string in JS? or can you?

Thanks

paul

08-09-2005, 8:55 PM 9435 in reply to 9434

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
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Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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paul,

Please check this example:

http://www.cutesoft.net/example/JavaScript-API.aspx

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08-10-2005, 3:42 PM 9468 in reply to 9435

shriner
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Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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worked perfectly

08-24-2005, 2:36 PM 9895 in reply to 9468

shland
Joined on 03-12-2005
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Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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ok, this is probably a dumb question - but in trying to further modify the autosave function to work in Safari as well where you simply put up a plain textarea- how can I get to the user modified text?

I'm using this syntax: textareaname.innerHTML to try to pull the user input and save it, but I'm only getting the text that was originally there, not anything they might have typed in since loading the page. for example, if the page pre-populated the textarea with "Please enter your text here", and then the user changes the content to be "This is my text", when I try to access textareaname.innerHtml to send to the database, I only get the "Please enter your text here".

Keep in mind that we are doing this periodically/asynchronously in javascript while the page is in the user's browser using the settimeout function, and not in response to any user button click or anything.

Thanks for any help,
Sheryl

08-24-2005, 2:42 PM 9897 in reply to 9895

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
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Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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>>but in trying to further modify the autosave function to work in Safari as well where you simply put up a plain textarea- how can I get to the user modified text?

Safari support is available in the version 5.0 which will be released soon.

We've also refined the JavaScript API in the version 5.0. That will resolve your problem.

08-24-2005, 2:53 PM 9899 in reply to 9897

shland
Joined on 03-12-2005
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No, I have to have this done by Friday, we release in a couple of weeks. I can't wait wait for your release, which will be wonderful, by the way

08-24-2005, 3:03 PM 9900 in reply to 9899

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
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Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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shland,

I can help you with the javaScript API. but if you need the safari support, you have to wait for the version 5.0.

We will release the version 5.0 in about 10 days.

http://cutesoft.net/example/JavaScript-API.aspx

The original code:

function getHTML()
        {
            // get the cute editor instance
            var editor1 = document.getElementById('CE_Editor1_ID');
            
            //Get the editor content  
            var editdoc=editor1.GetDocument(); 

            // Get the editor innerHTML
            document.getElementById("myTextArea").value = editdoc.body.innerHTML;
        }

Please use the following code instead:

function getHTML()
        {
            // get the cute editor instance
            var editor1 = document.getElementById('CE_Editor1_ID');

            // Get the editor HTML
            document.getElementById("myTextArea").value =editor1.getHTML();
        }

Hope it helps.

If there is anything you need from us before your release, please let me know.

10-18-2005, 1:21 PM 11809 in reply to 9435

aufgang
Joined on 10-17-2005
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This is great and i'm really glad i found this because it is exactly what i need to do.

I feel frustrated that I had do dig around in the forums to find this information. I've hunted around in the documentation that ceme with this component and was completely unable to find any documentation at all. These examples are handy but do not constiture proper documentation in my opinion. How about a comprehensive listing of the Javascript API objects, methods, events, etc?

10-18-2005, 1:30 PM 11810 in reply to 11809

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Javascript accessing content of Textarea

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aufgang,

This example shows you how to use CuteEditor JavaScript API to customize the application.

http://cutesoft.net/example/JavaScript-API.aspx